I'm using AdGuard and it covers pretty much everything and is very customizable, including the annoying "accept cookies" banners that we have in Europe.

try Adguard. It's the best one for this Apple interface for adblocking.

…which requires an Electron app to constantly be running for it to really work. Not great.

Untrue in my understanding.

The Electron app needs to run to set options or to force filters update, not the rest of the time. It's still an annoyance but it's better than nothing.

Changing the filters (e.g. by selecting a new element) requires the app to be running. Or, at least, it did when I stopped using it.

Correct. I understand in that case.

I would love for uBlock to find a workaround.

why does it work like this in macos? (meaning - it seems to be running an outside process to block ads, unlike in Chrome where the process is internal to the browser, is this correct?

as a windows user i was puzzled by this when installing adguard

It doesn't, the Adguard developers just chose to write their app in such a way that their main app (which is an Electron app) needs to be in the loop for everything.

Actually it's true - Adguard needs to run as a standalone process that lives in the menu bar in order to work properly with Safari. This permanent process does appear to be Electron based.

My guess is that it's engineered like this to simplify their code base(s) between their various free plugins and their paid "Adguard for Mac" and "Adguard for Windows" apps.

No problems with Wipr here, at all..

> Wipr doesn't work properly.

How does it not work properly? Been using it and am pretty satisfied so far.

Wipr works outstanding for me on both iOS and macOS.

Still get pop unders on both.

Where? I get 0 popus or popunders and I use wipr and no other adblockers.

Try an average torrent site.